2nd century
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| Centuries: | 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century |
| Decades: | 100s 110s 120s 130s 140s 150s 160s 170s 180s 190s |
The 2nd century is the period from 101 - 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
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[edit] Events
Image:Hadrian's wall at Greenhead Lough.jpg
- 96–180: Five Good Emperors of Rome: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
- The kingdom of Aksum emerges
- 120-150: Bulgars migrate to Europe
- 122–132: Hadrian's Wall across Britain
- 132–135: Bar Kokhba's revolt against Rome
- 144: Marcion, rejected by Church of Rome, founds Marcionism
- 167-175: First Marcomanni War
- 178-180: Second Marcomanni War (depicted in the movie Gladiator)
[edit] Significant persons
- Rabbi Akiva Head of all the Jewish Sages
- Rabbi Yehuda haNasi Prince of the Jewish people
- Commodus, Roman Emperor, claimed to be Hercules reincarnated
- Galen, medical writer
- Irenaeus, 2nd Bishop of Lyons
- Montanus, Christian heretic
- Nagarjuna, founder of Madhyamaka Buddhism
- Pliny the Younger
- Plutarch, Roman historian
- Ptolemy, Greek astronomer
- Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor
- Suetonius, Roman historian
- Valentinius, most famous Christian Gnostic
- Zhang Daoling, Taoist hermit, ascended to heaven
[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105)
- Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye.
- 132: Zhang Heng invents first seismometer
[edit] Decades and years
| 90s | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 |
| 100s | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 |
| 110s | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 |
| 120s | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 |
| 130s | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 |
| 140s | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 |
| 150s | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 |
| 160s | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 |
| 170s | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 |
| 180s | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 |
| 190s | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 |
| 200s | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 |
| Millennium | Century | |||||||||
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| 4th BC: | 40th BC | 39th BC | 38th BC | 37th BC | 36th BC | 35th BC | 34th BC | 33rd BC | 32nd BC | 31st BC |
| 3rd BC: | 30th BC | 29th BC | 28th BC | 27th BC | 26th BC | 25th BC | 24th BC | 23rd BC | 22nd BC | 21st BC |
| 2nd BC: | 20th BC | 19th BC | 18th BC | 17th BC | 16th BC | 15th BC | 14th BC | 13th BC | 12th BC | 11th BC |
| 1st BC: | 10th BC | 9th BC | 8th BC | 7th BC | 6th BC | 5th BC | 4th BC | 3rd BC | 2nd BC | 1st BC |
| 1st: | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| 2nd: | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th |
| 3rd: | 21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th | 26th | 27th | 28th | 29th | 30th |
| 4th: | 31st | 32nd | 33rd | 34th | 35th | 36th | 37th | 38th | 39th | 40th |
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